Teaching Recorder B-flat Note: An Overview in Primary School Music Standard Curriculum

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asri Che Mat
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Standard Curriculum ◽  
School Music

Students' experiences of collaborative creation through songcrafting in primary school: Supporting creative agency in ‘school music’ programmes

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sari Muhonen
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Classroom Community ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
The Past ◽  
Creative Agency ◽  
School Music ◽  
Musical Activities

The study reported in this article investigates students’ experiences (n=41) of their primary school songcrafting, examining the potential to support creative agency within school music education programmes. Songcrafting refers to a collaborative composing practice in which everyone is considered to be a capable creator of melodies and lyrics, and where negotiation, collaboration, and openness to the situation are essential. Through semi-structured individual interviews with students who had experienced songcrafting in the past, analysed with qualitative methods, it was found that the students' narration of songcrafting included meanings related to general agency, creative agency, musical participation within the classroom community, and documented and shared collaborative musical products, or ‘oeuvres’.The results of this study illustrate the various often unforeseeable meanings produced through participation in collaborative musical activities. Furthermore, they highlight the potential to enrich meaningful teaching practices and pedagogy through the examination of students' experiences, and exploring the potentials in narrating one's musical stories. These findings suggest that music education practices could benefit from the inclusion of a broader range of opportunities for the students to create their own music, and the sensitive facilitation of collaborative music creation processes.

scholarly journals Teachers’ view on KSSR mathematics document standard of curriculum

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-30
Author(s):  
Ikhsan Othman ◽  
Wan Azimah Wan Kadir
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
Standard Curriculum ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Level 1 ◽  
School Standard ◽  
Level Of Agreement

Primary School Standard Curriculum (KSSR being its acronym in Malay Language) was implemented since 2011 involving all subjects including Mathematics. Discussion in this paper is related to a study on teachers’ view on the syllabus used for KSSR Mathematics limited to level 1 primary school Mathematics. The study aimed to identify teachers’ view on the curriculum for the aspects of its objectives, learning experiences, organization of learning experiences and learning assessment. A four Likert scale questionnaire was built and used in the study. A total of 92 respondents from 58 primary schools were involved comprising of 44 males and 48 females teachers. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 20.0. The results of the study showed that teachers’ level of agreement on the curriculum was high for the aspect of objectives (mean score 3.396, SD 0.296); learning experiences (mean score 3.391, SD 0.286); organization of learning experiences (mean score of 3.452, SD 0.241); and learning assessment (mean score 3.376, SD 0.281). Analysis of t-test found that there was no significant difference at p ≤ .05 for teachers’ level of agreement between male teachers and female teachers for the mentioned aspects. Remark from this study is that; document standard of curriculum for KSSR Mathematics level 1 in Malaysian primary school is said to be suitable from teachers’ perspective. Studies involving larger samples and various other aspects of the curriculum should be done to get better and more accurate results.

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